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Padilla, Jose Luis; Hidalgo, M. Dolores; Benitez, Isabel; Gomez-Benito, Juana – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
The analysis of differential item functioning (DIF) examines whether item responses differ according to characteristics such as language and ethnicity, when people with matching ability levels respond differently to the items. This analysis can be performed by calculating various statistics, one of the most important being the Mantel-Haenszel,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Bias, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Kuntz, Patricia S. – 1999
A study investigated beliefs about language learning held by American adult students of Arabic studying in two programs, one in Morocco and one in Yemen, and compared them with beliefs held by the teachers. Subjects were 44 students and 10 teachers from the Morocco program and 27 students and 7 teachers from the Yemen program. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Arabic, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context